Lobendava is a village and municipality (obec

Obec

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) in Děčín District

Decín District

Děčín District is one of seven districts located within the Ústí nad Labem Region in the Czech Republic...

 in the Ústí nad Labem Region

Ústí nad Labem Region

Ústí nad Labem Region is an administrative unit of the Czech Republic, located in the north-western part of its historical region of Bohemia...

 of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 19.54 square kilometres (7.5 sq mi), and has a population of 334 (as at 2 October 2006).

Lobendava lies in the Lusatian Highlands, approximately 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Děčín

Decín

Děčín is a town in the Ústí nad Labem Region in the north of the Czech Republic. It is the largest town and administrative seat of the Děčín District.-Geography:...

, 45 km (28 mi) north-east of Ústí nad Labem

Ústí nad Labem

Ústí nad Labem is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Ústí nad Labem Region. The city is the 7th-most populous in the country.Ústí is situated in a mountainous district at the confluence of the Bílina and the Elbe Rivers, and, besides being an active river port, is an important railway junction...

, and 104 km (65 mi) north of Prague

Prague

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. Located in the Šluknov Hook

Šluknov Hook

The Šluknov Hook or Šluknov Projection is a "panhandle" region found in the northern Czech Republic along the border with Germany. The area is part of the southern Lusatian Highlands, between the Elbe Sandstone Mountains in the west and the Lusatian Mountains in the east. It is administratively...

 area close to the border with Neustadt in Sachsen

Neustadt in Sachsen

Neustadt in Sachsen is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in the Free State of Saxony, Germany. It is situated near the border with the Czech Republic, 35 km east of Dresden , and 23 km southwest of Bautzen...

 in Germany

Germany

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, it is the state's northernmost municipality since the demolition of nearby Fukov (in the present-day Šluknov

Šluknov

Šluknov is the northernmost town of the Czech Republic in its Ústí nad Labem Region . It lies in the geographic region that shares its name, the Šluknov Hook , a small portion of Bohemia which lies between Saxon Switzerland and the Zittau Hills . The district of Rožany has a border crossing to...

 municipal area) in 1960.

The Bohemia

Bohemia

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n village on the historic Imperial

Holy Roman Empire

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 route from Prague

Prague

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 to Dresden

Dresden

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 was first mentioned in a 1449 deed. Since the adjacent region of the Margraviate of Meissen had merged into the Electorate of Saxony

Electorate of Saxony

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, it was the site of a road border crossing, which was finally closed in 1945. The Hohwald forest north of the Severní (Hilgersdorf) hamlet comprises the northernmost point of the Czech Republic at 51°3′20"N 14°18′58"E. From 1804 it was also the northernmost point of the Austrian Empire

Austrian Empire

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, stretching down to the Prevlaka

Prevlaka

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 peninsula (in present-day Croatia

Croatia

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) in the south.